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International Student & Scholar Services is posting this announcement as a public service. Please contact Joyce Rawitscher if you have any questions about this Drama Therapy Project. Thank you. Bob Chudy ****************************************************************************************************************** FUNDRAISING PROGRAM [MP900305720[1]] Drama Therapy Projects JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE (WEST BANK) With Professor Gary English, UConn Department of Dramatic Arts SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2014, 3-5:00 PM STORRS FRIENDS MEETINGHOUSE (QUAKERS) 57 HUNTING LODGE ROAD, CT 06268, INTERSECTION WITH NORTH EAGLEVILLE ROAD Gary English, Professor in UConn's Department of Dramatic Arts and Consultant to the Jenin Freedom Theatre, along with colleagues, will present a video and discuss the work of the Freedom Theatre, located in the Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank. They will also demonstrate movement and other techniques that are used in drama therapy with traumatized children and their families, as well as the Freedom Bus Project. The latter takes actors to outlying villages and features Playback Theatre, in which the actors extemporaneously act out the stories told to them about the daily and long-term frustrations experienced under Israel's military occupation. This program, free and open to the public, seeks to raise funds for the Freedom Theatre's drama therapy programs, and especially to enable one of the Theatre's Drama School faculty to attend Le Coq Drama School in Paris for one year. She will learn drama therapy movement techniques and how to train others to use the same in comparable theatres throughout the Middle East. Such training in the Middle East currently does not exist. Contributions to the Freedom Theatre can be sent to: Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, Inc., P.O. Box 1125, New York, New York 10276. Contributions of $100 or more should be made out to the Middle East Children's Alliance, the fiduciary agent of the Friends, and a 501(c)3 organization. Palestinian handicrafts and olive oil will be available for sale. Light refreshments. Free and open to the public. Information: 860-429-3107 Sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Peace, Education and Action Group of Northeastern Connecticut